ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,433, issued on Aug. 4.
"Sand consolidation and water block with multipodal compositions" was invented by Maria Celeste Tria (Houston), Mario Roberto Rojas (Fulshear, Texas), Trinh Tran (Manvel, Texas), Mahdi Kazempour (Sugar Land, Texas), Christopher Waller (Houston) and Vittoria Balsamo-Hernandez (Fulshear, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silane-based and silane-free compounds can be used in a method for sand consolidation in a subterranean formation, sand consolidation compositions, a method for reducing water effective permeability in a subterranean formation, and water block compositions."
The patent was filed on Nov. 8, 202...